Window holder and fastener.



Patented Mar. 24, 191i M. L. GALL. WINDOW HOLDER AND FASTENER. APPLIOATION FILED MAY 23, 1912. 1,091,208.

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MARVIN LUCIAN GALL, OF PHILIPPI, WEST VIRGINIA.

WINDOW HOLDER AND FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 24,1914.

Application filed May 23, 1912. semi No. 699,356

adapted to hold a window sash at any desired elevation and to securely hold the sash closed or lowered so that it can not be opened from the outside. I

Another aim of the invention 1s tovprovide a sash holder so constructed that the use of weights and the like, will be rendered unnecessary.

In the accompanying drawing -F1gur e l is a perspective view of the device apphed to a window sash and its frame. Flg. 2 1s a view partly in elevation and partly insection illustrating the device. F 1g. 3 1s a detail view in elevation, of a supporting plate which constitutes an element of the device. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a hook member which is to be supported upon the plate shown in Fig. 3.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawing by the same reference characters. i

In the drawing the window frame 1s 1nd1- cated by the numeral 1 and the lower sash by the numeral 2.

The device includes a sash holdmg shoe indicated in general by the reference numeral 3 and this shoe is preferably in the form of a block of wood, although other material may be employed and one face thereof is provided with a facing 4:, preferablyof rubber, and it is this face of the shoe whlch is designed to cooperate with the stile of the sash 2 in order to hold the sash closed or at the desired elevation. The side of the block 3 opposite the face 4 is of doublewedge formation, or more specifically speaking, this side of the block has anticlinal faces and 6 covered or faced by a strip 7, which may be of sheet metal, or any other suitable material. In order that the shoe may be held in position to cooperate with the stile of the sash there is provided an abutment member which includes a threaded shank 8 secured in the stile of the frame 1 and terminating in a finger 9 which projects toward the sash 2, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. The shank 8 extends transversely of theanticlinal faces 5 or 6 of the shoe and is designed to'be engaged by either of the said faces depending upon whether the shoe is to hold the sash in closed position.

Itwill be observed that the finger 9 engages against the side of the shoe 3 so that the shoe can not move away from the window frame, although it may have vertical movement to a certaln'degree and may be moved toward and caused to bind firmly against the stile of the sash. In order that the shoe'may be adjusted so as to cooperate with the sash to hold the latter at various elevation or to cooperate with the sash in such a manner as to hold the same closed, there is provided a spring 10 which at its lower end is connected as at 11 to an eye or staple at the upper end of the shoe '3.

The upper end of the spring is designed to be connected with a hook member which is vertically adjustable upon the frame 1, as will now be explained. The hook is clearly shown in Fig. 4: of the drawing, and is to be supported upon the plate shown in Fig. 3 and the said hook includes a shank 12 which at one end is provided with a flat; sided head 18 and at its other end with hook portions 14L which form approximately an open sided ring or eye in which the upper end of the spring 10 may be engaged, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing. The support for the hook, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing, is in the nature of a sheet metal plate 15 provided at its ends with oifset portions 17, which latter are secured to the face of the frame 1, the offsetportions 16 serving to space the body portion of the plate from the said face of the frame, in the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The intermediate portion of the plate 15 is provided with a vertically extending slot 18, the lower end of which is turned laterally, as indicated at 19. At its upper end the slot is returned approximately upon itself, as indicated at 20 and at a point approximately midway between its said ends the slot has a branch'Ql which extends laterally and downwardly at an angle, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. At this point it will be apparent that the hook shown in Fig. 4 may have its shank fitted in the slot 16 and arranged so that it will rest in the lower end of the slot, at the upper end thereof, or in the lower end of the branch 21. As a consequence, in this construction, the hook may be supported at different elevations upon a frame of the window.

From the foregoing description of the invention and from an inspection of the several figures of the drawing, it will be apparent that when the hook member, as shown in Fig. l, has been moved upwardly in the slot 18 so as to position its shank in the returned upper end of the slot, an upward pull will be exerted upon the spring 10 and as a resultthe shoe 3 will be slid upwardly until its inclined face 6 engages against the abutment 8, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. With the shoe in this position its face t is held snugly against the face of the stile of the sash and should an attempt be made to raise the window sash from the outside, the shoe will be firmly wedged between v the sash and the abutment and movement of the sash to open position will be prevented. WVith the parts in the position stated and shown in the drawing, the window maybe raised and supported at any desired point by sliding the shank of the hook member downwardly in the slot 18 so that the shank will rest in the lowerend of said slot. The spring l0'will then be relieved of strain and the shoe 8 will have its inclined face 5 resting against the abutment 8. It will now be apparent that as the sash 2 is slid upwardly in the frame the shoe will be lifted slightly so as to bind less firmly against the sash and the sash may consequently be moved to any desired elevation, after which it may be released and will be engaged sufficiently firmly by the shoe 3 to insure of its support. Should the sash be open partly or fully, and should it be desired to lower the same, the shank of the hook member 12 is moved upwardly in the slot 18 and into the branch 21. The abutment 8 will then extend substantially opposite the meeting ends of the faces 5 and 6 of the shoe and out of contact with the said faces, so that by lifting the sash a short distance the frictional or wedging engagement of the shoe between the face of the sash and the abutment will be destroyed and the sash may be freely lowered. It will be apparent that the sash holder herein shown and described is simple in construction, positive in its action and not liable to get out of order. It will furthermore be noted that the sash may be supported by the device at any elevation and that the device serves not only as a means for supporting the sash in fully or partly open position, but serves also as a means for holding the sash closed so as to prevent its being raised or opened from the outside.

The fact will be readily appreciated that instead of providing the shoe with the anticlinal faces, the shoe may be concaved from end to end upon its rear face or the side of the shoe in question may be provided with synclinal surfaces or may be convexed from end to end, provided of course, two of the abutmentg are employed.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is 1. In a device of the class described, an abutment member, a shoe having anticlinal faces for cooperation with the abutment member, a supporting member, and a spring adjustably connected with the supporting member and supporting the said shoe in cooperative relation to the said abutment.

2. In a device of the class described, an abutment, a shoe having relatively inclined faces for cooperation with the abutment, a support, and a spring connected at one end with the support and adjustable thereon and connected with the said shoe whereby the shoe may be supported with one or the other of its faces in cooperative relation to the abutment.

3. In a device of the class described, an abutment, a shoe having relatively inclined faces for cooperation with the abutment, a support, and a spring connected at one end with the support and adjustable thereon and connected with the said shoe whereby the shoe may be supported with one or the other of its faces in cooperative relation to the abutment, or both out of poiiperative relation thereto.

4. In a device of the class described, an abutment, a supporting member arranged above the abutment and provided with vertically spaced seats, an attaching element adapted for disposal in said seats interchangeably, a spring connected to the said element, and a shoe to which the spring is connected, the shoe being supported by the spring in cooperative relation to the abutment.

5. In a device of the class described, an abutment, a supporting member comprising a plate having a substantially vertically extending slot having offset portions forming seats vertically spaced, an attaching element having a shank slidably fitting within the slot and movable to rest in said seats interchangeably, a spring connected to the said element and adapted to be supported thereby at various elevations with respect to the abutment, and a shoe supported by the spring in cooperative relation to the abutment.

MARVIN LUGIAN G-ALL. Witnesses C. C. MCKINNEY, S. J. GALL.

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